Supporters of the LGBT community celebrating the Supreme Court's verdict of decriminalizing gay sex and revocation of the archaic Section 377 law, during a march in September 2018. (Courtesy: Reuters ...

The Supreme Court of India on Thursday decriminalized consensual sex with members of the same sex by ruling [judgment, PDF] that part of Section 377 [text] of the Indian Penal Code violated ...

Paul Boyce has received funding from the ESRC. Aniruddha Dutta has received research grants from the University of Minnesota to work with queer and trans-gender people in Eastern India as part of her ...

The first failure, the dismissal of the Naz petition in 2004 and the review petition arising out of it in the Delhi Hc on technical grounds, was a big let-down but not for long as the SC set aside the ...

Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which punishes homosexuality, had remained on the books for so long—since 1861—that even its language was fusty and antique. “Whoever voluntarily has carnal ...

The coronavirus is giving the opportunity to regimes and politicians around the world to roll back the clock on LGBTQ rights, with little challenge. And in India, the coronavirus crisis is far from ...

Enactment of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, repealing of outdated laws like triple talaq and sedition, and striking down of Section 377 will be part of the CBSE's Legal Studies curriculum from the ...

NEW DELHI - Gay people in India face deep-rooted trauma and live in fear, the Supreme Court said on Thursday before deciding whether or not to scrap a colonial-era ban on homosexuality. A five-judge ...

Senior secondary students to study new laws that have replaced colonial-era statutes, along with landmark judgments and doctrines that have reshaped India’s legal framework The Tribune, now published ...